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A Survey of the Arabian side of the Gulf of Persia (Kuwait to Oman)

This is an early (unpublished) state of a larger survey commissioned by The Honourable East India Company. It charts the Arabian Side of the Gulf from Ras Moosendam to Gore Abdullah.

Chart Information

Reference:

P701

Date

1822-5

Hydrographer/Surveyor/Artist:

Lieuts. J.M. Guy & G.B. Brucks, R. Cogan & W.E Rogers

Size Of Original:

w 104cm x h 73cm

Paper Type

Innova Smooth Cotton High White. 310gsm

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P701

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This
manuscript is a reduction of drafts of the surveys made by Lieuts. J.M. Guy & G.B. Brucks, R. Cogan & W.E Rogers
between 1820 and 1824, which were finally published in three parts (see P702a, P702b & P702c)

In 1820 a systematic survey of the region was ordered by the H. E. I. C.
to replace earlier, less exact surveys. Captain P. Maughan was sent to
the Gulf in command of the ‘Discovery’ along with Lieutenant J. M. Guy as his
assistant surveyor in the ‘Psyche’. They began their survey at Cape Mussendom
(now Musandam in the region of Oman). In November 1821 Maughan fell ill and was
succeeded by Guy. In 1822 Guy forwarded a report of the coast to the
Government. On the 11 February 1823 Guy also succumbed to ill health and was
succeeded by Lieutenant G. B. Brucks. Guy’s part of the survey was drawn up by
Lieutenant Houghton in 1821 and there is a memo on the bottom left of the
survey to that effect. By April 1825, Brucks had completed the whole of
the western coast.

Many of the names used to depict settlements along the coastline on the
chart are very different to those we know today and they offer a most
interesting view of change and development in the region over the past 180
years. The land depicted in this chart now enjoys a level of modern day
economic prosperity well beyond the imagination of 19th century colonial
European powers.

The inscription under the survey title which reads ‘Honourable E.I.C y’s
Marine’ is a reference to the all powerful East India Company which traded in
commodities such as cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, pepper, tea, and
opium. Although the company had started in the East Indies it had by the 19th
century assumed effective control over trade in Asia and India and China in
particular. That the Honourable East India Company had its own navy is a
measure of its power and influence at the time.